Ender Team

Jon has been a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor for over a decade. During his time as a merchant banker, he oversaw upwards of $1 billion in transactions. As a partner at Sway Ventures and co-founder of Fideras, Jon served as an advisor to companies, management, and boards concerning market trends and financing opportunities throughout the world. Jon has also led and produced several film productions.

Jason brings an unprecedented level of technological aptitude to the property management industry. Prior to Ender, he co-founded Addepar in 2009 and Dynasty in 2016. Addepar has trillions of dollars under management and is utilized by major institutions, such as Morgan Stanley. Dynasty was acquired by Appfolio in 2018.

Randy joins Ender with more than a decade of experience at Amazon. Randy oversaw all aspects of Amazon's Customer Service's product returns and replacements business. While at Amazon, he worked in the Customer Service, Fulfillment, and Sustainability divisions learning product management, natural language processing, machine learning, financial services, and the delivery of consistent high volume manual operations. When he's not at work you can find him chasing snowstorms in his signature hot pink helmet.

Scipio (pronounced “skip-ee-oh”) has broad authority on all matters relating to Ender, with a day-to-day focus on workplace culture. Living up to her namesake, she inspires the troops. As CBO, Scipio sits in on key meetings, promotes self care, and provides radically transparent feedback. She often speaks of the Library of Alexandria, speculating on what great pieces of literature resided there. When milestones are hit, Scipio indulges in a snack of plum slices.

Akshay has delivered customer-centric solutions that drive growth in developer experience, SaaS integrations, artificial intelligence, revenue optimization, and defect elimination. Akshay previously led teams at key parts of Amazon and Capital One. Most recently, he was a product leader at Buy with Prime, Amazon's latest moonshot initiative, where Akshay was responsible for building SaaS products to democratize how merchants offer Amazon Prime benefits on their E-commerce websites. When away from work, you might spot him playing tennis, hiking through beautiful trails, sport climbing, or cycling along scenic routes.

Aaron, in addition to practicing law and producing films, has an extensive background in marketing and sales. He has executed productions and advertisements for numerous brands and organizations such as Onehope Wine, Netflix, The Orchard, Hims, Terminal, Atomic, 8VC, and various others. Aaron leads our business development team, provides legal analysis and counsel, and works closely with our operations and engineering teams to ensure that our clients receive the highest quality of service.

Since graduating from the University of Southern California in 2010, Brian has worked in sales, operations, and business development at several major tech organizations. His first foray into Silicon Valley was in 2012, when he joined Addepar. After contributing to Addepar for several years, Brian managed various elite properties in the Bay Area. As an early leader at Ender, Brian is able to draw on his varied experience in sales/marketing, operations, and property management.

Matthew joins Ender with an extensive background in user experience, design, product and marketing development, from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. Before joining, he founded and ran an award-winning digital agency in NYC for over a decade with clients including SONY, Estée Lauder Companies, American Express, ABC, and NBC Universal.

Jake fell in love with machine learning while completing his doctoral thesis on sub-Riemannian geometry (mathematics) at the University of Pittsburgh. He hosts regular AI meet-ups and is excited to bring his passion for machine learning to help push the edge of efficiency in property management.

Jared has been a frontend engineer at organizations large and small. His career spans from music and television to Yahoo! and the AdTech world. Jared returned to his hometown of Austin to join Ender. His experience across design, animation, and UX helps the team build fast and accessible applications available to every user on any device.

Immediately after graduating from St. Edward's University, Anna began working for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. There she acquired skills that fostered her love for organization, recruitment, and management. These same skills help Anna serve as Ender's Office Manager.

Kamran is a seasoned backend engineer who has been building highly scalable financial backend systems for 10+ years. He most recently worked for Robinhood as an early engineer and led the greenfield development of a number of critical systems spanning Account Restrictions, Margin Trading, Payments, Accounting, Settlement and Recon. He architected and led the development of the entire back office clearing system that now clears $1B daily transaction volume for 13m+ users. This is the first stock clearing system successfully built and launched from scratch in multiple decades and gives Robinhood a huge competitive advantage. He relishes finding simple elegant solutions to complex problems.

Jack joins Ender's product team after graduating from Georgetown University, where he studied Science, Technology, and International Affairs. In addition to his coursework, Jack became involved in the D.C. startup scene, founding and operating ventures that sought to provide innovative solutions to long-recognized problems. Outside of work, Jack spends his time playing guitar and exploring the great outdoors.

Aary has experience in machine learning and policy analysis. He has built data-based solutions for governments in West Africa and Oceania. Aary attended CMC and Claremont Graduate University. He lived in SoCal for five years before moving to Austin to join Ender. Aary is excited to bring his passion for creating positive impact into the real estate tech space. When not working, Aary is hunting for the best Korean BBQ restaurants in Texas.

Erik has worked in real estate, sales, and business development at Hampton River Partners, Bev, and CBRE. Erik utilizes his domain expertise to help Ender deliver value. Erik graduated USC with a BA degree in Business Administration and moved to Austin to join Ender. Growing up the youngest of seven children, Erik can acclimate to any environment.

Jessica studied Informatics and Human Centered Design and participated in UX @ UW at the University of Washington. She learned people and organizational skills as a sales associate at Nordstrom and joins Ender excited to identify and solve customer problems. Jessica quickly found a true passion for bunny care-taking.

Justin enjoys finding approachable solutions to challenging problems. He joins Ender with an expertise and passion for building effective, enjoyable user experiences. He brings a breadth of knowledge from previous consulting and development work in a range of industries including academia, aviation, e-commerce, and marketing. He enjoys exploring new parks and museums with his family.

Vadim graduated with a degree in Actuarial Science but transitioned to software engineering three years ago. He previously worked as an engineer at Goldman Sachs on their Marquee product, which provides market insights and analytical tools for institutional investors. Vadim hopes to travel the world during his lifetime. He speaks English, Russian, and Spanish.

Yuan is an engineer who is always curious about current technical development and challenges. Before joining Ender, he worked on the Amazon Alexa ecosystem for three years. His responsibilities include providing multiple microservices and web applications to support both internal and general end customers. Yuan came to the US in 2016 and was a veteran video game developer working in China and Taiwan with more than ten years of experience under his belt. He lives in Edmonds, Washington with his wife and dog.

Upon graduating with a degree in Business Administration at Saint Edwards University, Faith has worked in operations, sales, business development, and management. She joins Ender as our QA Analyst and brings a passion for discovering abstract solutions. When Faith is not working she enjoys car camping, the outdoors, and any water activities.

Geoff worked as an electrical engineer in aerospace defense for several years before following his passion for web software. No stranger to real estate, he worked with AppFolio to build a new web app for real estate investment fund managers and is looking forward to purchasing his own investment property near Atlanta this year. Geoff lives in Marietta, Georgia and is originally from Massachusetts and California. He enjoys writing frontend features with React and TypeScript, chess tactics, piano improvisation, and staying healthy.

Anne is an Austin native with experience in UX design, industrial design, and strategic product development. She received her Master of Science in Industrial Design from ArtCenter College of Design and her MBA from Claremont Graduate University. She spent several years designing eCommerce experiences for the medical device industry before joining the design team at Ender.

Luke is a multidisciplinary designer with a specialty in UI/UX design. He brings years of experience having worked within agencies designing digital experiences for high-profile clients. Luke combines user needs with product objectives to design elegant solutions to complex problems. When he's not working, you can find Luke outside with his dog Leo or taking advantage of the Live Music Capital of the World.

Fanishka joins Ender after completing her Master degree from Johns Hopkins University. She has experience in financial services where she worked in treasury, global markets, and wealth management. Fanishka is passionate about problem solving and international development. When not working, she spends her time keeping fit. She moved to the US from the tropical island of Mauritius and speaks French, English, and Hindi.

Matt is a University of Michigan Engineering graduate and worked as a software developer at Ford Motor Company. After almost ten years at a large company, Matt decided it was time to take his experience into the startup world, happily landing at Ender. If he's not programming he's most likely playing ice hockey.

Jessica graduated from the University of Virginia with a dual major in Business and Computer Science. She started her career at Slack, working as a backend engineer on the Growth, Billing, and Backend Infrastructure teams. Her passion for entrepreneurship then took her to work for an early stage startup as a Founding Engineer, where she worked as a Full-Stack engineer building a notion-esque product from the ground up. Additionally, when the pandemic hit and mortgage interest rates plummeted, she dove into real estate investing, and today owns 3 short term rentals. It was here that she found her passion for all things real estate, and ultimately made the leap to join Ender - creating the software she wanted to buy or build herself to help manage her own properties.

Formerly, Kyle worked as a contractor for the Department of Homeland Security. He enjoys developing websites using React and TypeScript, and his hobbies include game development and animation. He hopes to juice up the Ender product suite with some tasty special effects and clean, consistent UX.

Alessandro double majored in Software Engineering and Mathematics for Quantitative Economics at UC Irvine. He worked in finance in the entertainment and real estate industries before making the switch to full stack engineering. Previous to Ender, he worked on the Department of Labor's 'ECOMP Workers Compensation Management System' as a Frontend Tech Lead. Alessandro is a digital multimedia artist and enjoys combining technology and art to develop audio/visual tools.

Connor studied Data Science at UC Berkeley. He enjoys challenging himself with large scale projects requiring skills in full stack development. Outside of work, Connor spends time exploring new cuisines and figuring out how to cook them himself.

Werner is a full stack Software Engineer with more than 10 years of experience. He relocated from South Africa to the US to work on Facebook’s Scaled Operations team. Werner has a passion for problem solving, scuba diving, rock climbing, and gaming.

Tim has been in the software engineering space for over 10 years. His experience ranges from being a Director of Engineering at a YC proptech startup to an SDE III Engineer at Amazon. Tim has designed and lead implementation of multiple large scale distributed systems and strives to make sure systems and teams can scale in every dimension. In his personal time, Tim enjoys playing chess and trying to predict the future.

Isaiah Jones joins Ender as an Associate QA Analyst. With 5+ years in military intelligence as an Army Reservist, he excelled in critical operations. Isaiah's versatility extends to mobile service expertise at T-Mobile USA, technology sales at BestBuy, and fulfillment at Amazon. A first-generation graduate from Texas State University, he studied Business Management and minored in Military Science. Isaiah's strengths lie in critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, and organization. Isaiah finds balance through weightlifting, hiking with his dog, and enjoying anime.

After obtaining a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, Xiaohan (pronounced 'Sh-i-ao Han') embarked on her journey with Ender as a software engineer. Her prior internship at Meta solidified her passion for software application development. Beyond coding, Xiaohan finds great joy in cooking and continuously expanding her repertoire of recipes. The realms of coding and cooking are the two areas where she effortlessly immerses herself. Sharing her culinary creations with friends is something she particularly cherishes. Moreover, as someone born in the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, Xiaohan feels a special affinity for our Chief Bunny Officer.

Amog excels in creating robust and scalable backend solutions. Amog majored in computer science at UT Austin. Outside of work, he is passionate about rock climbing and is an avid fan of house music. Known for his vibrant personality and noteworthy hair, Amog brings technical skill and flair to the team.

While at UT, Jordan got her real estate license to help people find rental housing in Austin for six years. She then pivoted into software engineering, where Jordan built internal and external products for Indeed, Home Depot, and venture-backed startups. She’s excited to bring her industry knowledge and experience to Ender in a strategic, product, and operations capacity as Chief of Staff. Outside of work, Jordan enjoys practicing aerial arts, learning foreign languages, and knocking books off her backlog.